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...Concert--Sueilen Hershman, flute, and Richard Layman, guitar; New School of Music, 25 Lowell...
...course, Wolfe is an unabashed layman with a superficial familiarity with much of the work; his analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright misses much of the old man's influence, and his indictment of Louis Kahn rings a bit hollow. Furthermore, he misses the point of the renewed interest in classicism, exemplified by Phillip Johnson's plans for the still-incomplete AT&T building in New York City. Wolfe views the neo-classicism merely as Gropius in Roman ropes, when it may reflect more deeply the wide dissatisfaction with the glass...
Gossip is the layman's mythmaker and moralist, the small, idle interior puppet-theater in which he tries out new plays, new parts for himself...
These goings-on, or takings-off, stirred the wrath of an archdiocesan layman's group. In an irate open letter to Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl that drew banner headlines in Munich, the Catholic association declared: "The many nude people in the garden disturb and offend those decent citizens who want to use it for recreational purposes." Many citizens agreed. Asked Housewife Ingrid Steinberger: "Why should I be forced to look at naked behinds?" The letter also threatened vigilante action if the police refused to take steps. Equally outraged, though not notably logical, the forces of nudity argued back. Asked...
...late C.P. Snow defined the Two Cultures; Martin Gardner bridges them. His classics, Relativity for the Million and The Ambidextrous Universe, make physics lucid to the layman; The Annotated Alice has become the standard guide to Wonderland. In addition he has published exegeses on poetry as diverse as The Ancient Mariner and Casey at the Bat. Yet no matter how wide he ranges, one subject has preoccupied the polymath since he began writing 35 years ago: the dangers and delights of pseudo science...